Published 1991 | Version v1
Journal article

Constituent migration model for fast reactor U-Pu-Zr metallic fuel

  • 1. Hitachi Ltd. ERL, Ibaraki (Japan)
  • 2. Central Research Inst. of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo (Japan)

Description

The metallic fuel behavior of U-Pu-Zr has been actively investigated at Argonne National Laboratory. The Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry has been developing a metallic fuel liquid-metal fast breeder reactor concept jointly with several Japanese organizations. One of the development activities resulted in the fuel performance code SESAME. Recently, joint efforts have included the development of more mechanistic models for metallic fuel behavior. One of the models is for the constituent migration behavior in U-Pu-Zr fuels. For a simulation of constituent migration in the Experimental Breeder Reactor 2 (EBR-2) test pins ND30 and ND35, a quasi-binary U-Zr-(11.5 at.% Pu) phase diagram is produced using the U-Pu-Zr ternary phase diagram of O'Boyle and Dwight

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
Journal Volume
63
Series
Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.
Journal Page Range
177-178
ISSN
0003-018X
CODEN
TANSA

Conference

Title
Annual meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS).
Dates
2-6 Jun 1991.
Place
Orlando, FL (United States).

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
CONF-910603--.